Welcome
to our Amara Intro and Banner Builder™ tutorials. Although the application
is pretty easy to use, we have created step-by-step tutorials
to make sure that absolutely everybody can create web banners
and intros for their website with the tool.

Amara Intro and Banner Builder™ enables you to create banners
- the simplest form of animation that can be created
with the software - or intros - which are a bit
more complex than banners.

A banner consists of a sequence
of sentences or a sequence of text blocks appearing one after
the other. This is the traditional banner as seen on millions
of other websites.

Anintro is more complex as the
sentences or text blocks do NOT necessarily appear one after
another, as it's possible (when the effect tab is set
to intros) to set the incoming time of each text effect
(the moment when the effect appears) and the duration
(the time the text remains on screen) of the effect. With these features
you can make animations whereby, for example, sentences
appear one by one, while the previous ones remain on screen, and after they are all displayed
they will fade out all at once, as well as many other variations. (Check
out an Intro sample)

Banner tutorial:

1) Go to the layout tab and set the movie dimensions
to 468x60 or any other banner dimensions.

2) Select a background color or add your own background
picture.

3) Make sure compression is ticked.

4) Set the loop to the desired number of loops which
is infinite by default.

5) Go to the Type tab and select Banner.

6) Go to the Text tab (This is where the actual building
of the banner needs to be done).

8)
To create a second and third line of the banner animation
click twice on Add Item and enter the desired text
in the respective text areas.

Now
click on Generate and Display and you will see that
you have created a rough banner animation without any effects
or font properties.

To assign a text effect to the text of text area 1 click on
text 1 (picture 1), click on the text effect tab and select
any of the desired text effects (picture 2).

picture
1

picture 2

Do
the same for the two other text lines. First
activate the required text (figure 1) and then enter the respective
text in the text area.

Click again on Generate and Display and you will see
you have created your first basic banner.

9)
To position your effect: Activate the required text line (figure
1), click on the position tab and set the desired Top
and Left positions (picture 3)
picture 3

10)
Each text can be set to freeze for a certain amount of time.
To do this, a ctivate
the required text line (figure 1), click on the
timing tab and set the desired freeze time for each text line
(default is 10, which is 1 second).

Finally, we will set the font properties
of the text. This is the most complicated part but also one
of the most unique features of the application as it allows
you to assign different font zones to part of your text or even to each character, with each font style
consisting of its own font type, color and size!

11)
To assign a Font style to a selection of your text click on
the Font style tab:

13) In the text area, select the part of your text you want
to assign different properties by highlighting it (click and
drag your mouse over the text).

14) Create a new font zone for your highlighted text by clicking
on the green plus symbol "+"

15) Select the font properties you want to assign your new
font zone.

16) To confirm, make sure the newly created zone is activated
and click on the blue tick symbol " " to assign
it to your selected text.

To see the final result, click on "Generate
and Display" on the right.

Intro tutorial:

1) Go to the layout tab and set the movie dimensions
to 400x 400 or any other dimensions.

2) Select a background color or add your own background
picture.

3) Make sure compression is ticked.

4) Set the loop to the desired number of loops which
is normally infinite.

5) Go to the Type tab and select Intro.

6) Go to the Text tab (this is where the actual building
of the intro should be done).

7) Click on Add Item and enter the desired text in
the text 1 area (picture 1).

8)
To create a second and third line of the intro animation click
twice on Add Item and enter the desired text in the
respective text areas.

Picture 1

Now
click on Generate and Display and you will see that
you have created a rough intro animation without any effect
or font properties. The problem is that all the sentences
are overlapping each other, as for each line you must set
unique X and Y position, incoming time and duration.

9) To
set the position of each effect click on the Text positon
tab. Make sure you activate text 1, text 2, etc (picture 1).

For
text 1 set the position to top=100 left=10
For text 2 set the position to top=200 left=10
For text 3 set the position to top=300 left=10

To set the Text effect click on the Text effect tab. Make
sure you activate text 1, text 2, etc (picture 1) and assign
an effect for each line.

Click on Generate and Display and you will see your
first basic intro up and running.

10) The next step will be to change the time of appearance (now
they all appear at once).

To do this click on the Timing tab. Make
sure you activate text 1, text 2, etc (picture 1).

For
text 1 set the incoming time to 0
For text 2 set the incoming time to 20
For text 3 set the incoming time to 40

Click on Generate and Display and you will see that
all sentences appear at a different time.

By
setting the Freeze time you will be able to set the number
of seconds that the text will be frozen on the screen before
it disappears.

To
make text 1 freeze for 4 seconds, activate text 1 (picture
1) and set the freeze time to 40.

Click
on Generate and Display. Now you will be able to create
creative animations without limitations!

11) The last part of
this tutorial is to assign the fonts, colors and size to the
text.